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CUMPUND TOOL.

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LUKE E. BESSETTE, OF ST. CLOUD, MINNESOTA, ASSIGNOR OF ONE-HALF TO NICHOLAS GEIB, OF ST. CLOUD, MINNESOTA.

COMPOUND TOOL.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent N0. 687,871, dated. December 3, 1901.

` Application filed September 26,1901. Serial No. 76,664.. (No model.)

T0 all whom it may concern/.j

Beit known that I, LUKE EBEssETTE, a citizen of the United States, residing at St. Cloud, in the county of Stearns and State of Minne- Sota, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Compound Tools, of which the following is a specification, reference being had therein to the accompanying drawings.

This invention relates to compound tool-s adapted for use for various purposes; and the object of this invention is to provide a simple and inexpensive tool adapted for use as a bolt-thread repairer or Sharpener, as a handvise, as a screwdriver-blade holder, and as a wrench. I attain this object by the construction illustrated in the accompanying drawings, in which- Figure l is a perspective view of the tool constructed in accordance with my invention. Fig. 2 is a longitudinal section of the same. Fig. 3 is a side view of the inner face of one of the two clamping-dies of the tool. Fig. 4. is a transverse section of said die on the line w of Fig. 3. Fig. 5 is a side view of a die slightly modified in form from Fig. 3.

In said drawings, A and A2 represent the two cup-shaped dies of the device. Said dies are preferably cylindrical. Their outer faces are flat, but their inner faces are concave. Around the concavity of said faces there are rims ot and a2, arranged to face each other. The face of each rim is fiat, and within said faces a series of radial depressions is made. The depressions 1, 2, 3, and It are in the form of half cylinder crescents that are screwtapped with taps of different diameters. There are also angular depressions 5 and 6 to receive the stems of tools or other articles. For example,the opening 5,which is relatively large, is well adapted to receive the tine of a large screw-driver or small nuts and the tool be used as a Wrench. The smaller opening 6 is adapted to receive smaller tools or to clamp a piece of wire.

The dies A and A2 are placed between a pair of fiat and slightly-springybranches or plates C and C2, which have their rear ends bent toward each other at c and lying in close constitute tines which are driven into the handle D, said handle being provided with a ferrule CZ to reinforce it. The outer portions of the tines c2 are also united together with a small screw e, passing transversely through them. The dies are revolubly united to the branches C and C2 by means of a bolt F, having its screw-threaded end in engagement with the branch C2 and its head resting upon the branch C. Said head is iiattene'd to be easily grasped and rotated. To spread apart the outer ends of the branches C and C2 and also the dies A and A2 to facilitate the introduction of objects between the latter, a coiled spring f encircles the bolt F and its ends bear against'the inner faces of the dies. Said dies are either cylindrical, as shown in four of the figures, or polygonal, as shown in Fig. 5.

To cause the two dies A and A2 to be rotated together, one of them has projecting from its rim two pins g, that are received loosely into similarly-located perforations h made in the rim of the other die, so that the two dies constitute substantially a single body. To retain said dies so that either one of the pairs of perforations is in the axis of the handle, the die A has in its flat top a series of cuplike depressions or holes i to receive into either one of them a short pin 7o, projecting from the under side of the flat branch C of the device.

Having now fully described my invention, I claiml. A compound tool consisting of a handle, two fiat branches projecting therefrom, two cup-like dies having their rims facing each other, and depressions of various forms and sizes in said rims, pins projecting from the rim of one die and entering the rim of the other, a screw-bolt passing through the dat branches and through the dies, a spring coiled around said bolt, and a pin passing through one of the branches and in engagement with one of the dies, substantially as described.

2. In a compound tool, the combination of a handle, two Hat branches projecting therefrom, two cup-like dies having their rims facing each other, and depressions of various forms and sizes in said rims, pins projecting In testimony whereof I aix my signature from the rim of one die and entering the rim in presence of two Witnesses.

of the other, a screw-bolt passing through the 1 1 Hat branches and through the dies, and a pin LUKE L' BESSIVI E' 3 passing through one of the branches an'd in Witnesses:

engagement With one of the dies, substantially ANDREW C. ROBERTSON,

as described. W. S. ROBERTSON. 

